(a) Each employing unit shall keep true and accurate work records, for such periods of time and containing such information as the department of labor and industrial relations may prescribe. The records shall be open to inspection and be subject to being copied by the authorized representatives of the department at any reasonable time and as often as may be necessary. Any authorized representative of the department, or the referee, may require from any employing unit any sworn or unsworn reports, with respect to persons employed by it, which such authorized representative, or the referee, deems necessary for the effective administration of this chapter.
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Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 383-94

  • Contributions: means the money payments required by this chapter to be made into the state unemployment compensation fund by any employing unit on account of having individuals in its employ. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 383-1
  • Department: means the department of labor and industrial relations. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 383-1
  • Director: means the director of labor and industrial relations of the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 383-1
  • Employer: means :

    (1) Any employing unit which for some portion of a day within the current calendar year has or had in employment one or more individuals; and

    (2) For the effective period of its election pursuant to section 383-77, any other employing unit which has elected to become subject to this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 383-1

  • Employing unit: means any individual or type of organization, including the State, any of its political subdivisions, any instrumentality of the State or its political subdivisions, any partnership, association, trust, estate, joint-stock company, insurance company, or corporation, whether domestic or foreign, or the receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, trustee, or successor of any of the foregoing, or the legal representative of a deceased person, which has or subsequent to January 1, 1937, had one or more individuals performing services for it within this State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 383-1
  • Employment: includes , but is not limited to, any service performed prior to January 1, 1978, which was employment as defined in this section prior to such date and, subject to the other provisions of this section, service performed after December 31, 1977, by an employee as defined in section 3306(i) and (o) of the federal Unemployment Tax Act, including service in interstate commerce. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 383-2
  • Fund: means the unemployment compensation fund established by this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 383-1
  • month: means a calendar month; and the word "year" a calendar year. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-20
  • Referee: means the referee for unemployment compensation appeals. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 383-1
  • State: includes the states of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and Virgin Islands. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 383-1
(b) Each employer shall report all new employees hired subject to procedures prescribed by the department, within five working days after the first day of employment of such individual. If any employer fails to report with respect to a newly hired employee within five working days after the first day of employment, the employer shall pay a penalty in the amount of $10. Effective October 1, 1998, employers need not report all new hires to the department.
(c) Each employer shall report the separation of any employee or the wages paid to such employee, or both, upon request of the department within five calendar days from the date that the request was mailed to the employer. If any employer fails to report with respect to the separation of an individual, or the remuneration which the employer paid to the individual, or both, within five calendar days after mailing of notice from the department, the employer shall pay a penalty in the amount of $10.
(d) Each employer or employing unit as defined in section 383-1 shall furnish the department with wage information for each employee in accordance with rules as the department of labor and industrial relations may prescribe, except that no report shall be filed with respect to an employee of a state or local agency performing intelligence or counterintelligence functions, if the head of that agency has determined that filing such a report could endanger the safety of the employee or compromise an ongoing investigation or intelligence mission. Such quarterly wage report shall be filed with the department on or before the last day of the month succeeding the last month of each quarter. Any employer who fails to file a report of wages paid to each of the employer’s employees for any period in the manner and within the time prescribed by this chapter and the rules of the department, or any employer who the department finds has filed an insufficient report, shall pay a penalty of $30.
(e) Penalties shall be assessed, collected, and paid into the fund in the same manner as contributions. The director, in a case of excusable failure to file any report under this section within the required time, may remit the penalty.

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